A Reinterpretation of Parental Monitoring in Longitudinal Perspective
A Reinterpretation of Parental Monitoring in Longitudinal Perspective
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1532-7795.2009.00623.x
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Burk, William J.
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作者：
Kerr, Margaret;Stattin, Hakan;Burk, William J.
父母监控的一个常用措施是父母对青少年日常活动的了解。这一措施受到批评，理由是父母通过自愿的青年披露而不是通过自己的积极监测努力获得更多关于青少年日常活动的知识，但这一说法是基于横截面数据。在本研究中，我们重新审视这一主张的纵向数据超过2年，从938个七，八年级学生和他们的父母。青少年的披露是一个重要的纵向预测的父母的知识在单和交叉评分模型。无论是父母的监控措施，控制或请求，是一个显着的预测。在涉及犯罪的分析中，父母的监督努力并没有预测随着时间的推移犯罪的变化，但青年披露。我们的结论是，因为知识的措施似乎并不代表家长的监督工作，使用这些措施的研究结论应该重新解释。
A commonly used measure of parental monitoring is parents' knowledge of adolescents' daily activities. This measure has been criticized on the grounds that parents get more knowledge about teenagers' daily activities through willing youth disclosure than through their own active monitoring efforts, but this claim was based on cross-sectional data. In the present study, we reexamine this claim with longitudinal data over 2 years from 938 seventh and eighth graders and their parents. Youth disclosure was a significant longitudinal predictor of parental knowledge in single- and cross-rater models. Neither measure of parents' monitoring efforts-control or solicitation-was a significant predictor. In analyses involving delinquency, parental monitoring efforts did not predict changes in delinquency over time, but youth disclosure did. We conclude that because knowledge measures do not seem to represent parental monitoring efforts, the conclusions from studies using these measures should be reinterpreted.